Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.